At last, multitasking is coming to the iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (3rd Gen) and iPad, allowing you to quickly switch between applications, using one while others keep doing other tasks in the background. This is how it works. More »
The fourth iPhone OS comes today. iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will be getting new features. Multitasking? Tethering? The cloud? Our live coverage is already under way, but the official event starts at 10PT (1ET). [Gizmodo Live] More »
Finally, a GPS device that does what the others don’t: It warns drivers about red light cameras and speed traps. Unlike a radar detector, this is completely legal.
The GPS Angel sits on your dashboard and monitors your car’s position via GPS. When you approach an area it knows contains a red light camera or speed camera, it gives off a warning. You can update the stored locations anytime by connecting it to your computer and downloading current information from the Web site.
With a SiRF Star III GPS chip inside, it should be just as reliable as any GPS navigation system. It even lets you create your own alert areas for places where you know there’s a problem. The $129 list price is a little high, but so is the cost of a ticket.
Geeks, get out your plastic. The designers at Mimobot have dipped into the Star Wars well once again, and the fifth series of its Star Wars line of USB Flash drives looks extremely cool.
The stormtrooper Mimobot, you see, comes with a removable helmet. You won’t know if you’ve got Luke in disguise or Han in disguise until you remove it. How cool is that?
Other figures in the series include R2-D2 (finally!), Obi-Wan, and a Jawa. Each one comes loaded with desktop wallpapers, icons, avatars, and screensavers (they’re Flash drives, after all), and they come in 2GB to 16GB capacities. Prices start at $29.95.
Apple’s “Get a Mac” has been one of the most beloved and longest-lived tech ad campaigns in recent memory. The shelf life of the ads, featuring John Hodgman and Justin Long as a PC and Mac, respectively, has been particularly impressive given the speed at which the tech industry tends to move.
Of course, all things must come to an end, and while no one at Apple has made any sort of formal announcement (nor do we ever really expect them to), the ads seem to have run their course. In a recent interview, Long told The AV Club that the ads have seemingly run their course,
You know, I think they might be done. In fact, I heard from John, I think they’re going to move on. I can’t say definitively, which is sad, because not only am I going to miss doing them, but also working with John. I’ve become very close with him, and he’s one of my dearest, greatest friends. It was so much fun to go do that job, because there’s not a lot to it for me. A lot of it is just keeping myself entertained between takes, and there’s no one I’d rather do it with than John.
An iPad nano? We’ve heard this one before, of course. There were rumors for some time that Apple was working on a smaller version of the iPhone, quickly deemed the iPhone nano, by the press. And heck, even before the iPad became a reality, there was word floating around that the device would come in a variety of sizes.
Now that the iPad is out in the world for everyone to see and buy, the rumors have heated up again. According to an analyst at Digitimes, Apple is said to be working on a five to seven inch version of the device due out as early as the first quarter of next year.
The newer, smaller iPad will reportedly be priced at under $400.
Okay, I’ll just say it–don’t we have a smaller iPad already? Isn’t it called the iPod touch?
Here are the five best cars of the 2010 New York International Auto Show, which runs through April 12. The most significant new car is the Hyundai Equus, a premium luxury car meant to match the Lexus LS 460 but with a price $10,000-$15,000 less. Hyundai shook the car world two years ago at the New York show with the $38,000 Hyundai Genesis, which some writers (me included) likened to an LS 460 at half the price. Hyundai stretched the Genesis chassis half a foot to make it three inches longer not shorter than the LS 460. Most every luxury offered in a Lexus (or Mercedes-Benz S-Class or BMW 7 Series), you’ll find offered in the Hyundai Equus from active cruise control to massaging seats (front and right rear).
The world badly needs the sixth generation of the BMW 5 Series, which got its U.S. introduction at the New York International Auto Show. Without the new BMW 5 Series, competitors wouldn’t be able to run ads saying “brakes faster than a BMW 5 Series” … “more shoulder room in back than a 5 Series” … “tighter turning radius” and so forth. Everybody’s better than BMW in one facet. The BMW 5 Series is the benchmark for mid-size luxury-sport sedans and the 2011 model continues the sporty handling flair of a BMW 3 Series while picking up as much room inside of the last-generation BMW 7 Series, especially in formerly cramped rear seat. BMW worked out some of the design quirks on the 2003-2009 model and it may be the handsomest BMW sedan you can buy today. With prices starting in the low 50s (most likely decreasing compared to 2009s with similar content), this is not the car for everyone. But it will be the benchmark.
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